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Fix the images
Tue, Sep. 5th, 2017 22:22
LiveJournal, please fix our images. Or at least acknowledge the fact that they're broken. :(
Sincerely,
The least likely user to make a post like this
Sincerely,
The least likely user to make a post like this
Back to the... present
Sat, Sep. 2nd, 2017 22:49
Well, August is over, so that means Matt1993 Nostalgia Month is over - so I changed my LJ and DW styles and userpics back to what they usually look like. (If you met me during Matt1993 Nostalgia Month and therefore don't know what I'm talking about, see this entry, or see it on DreamWidth, and then maybe see a few entries after it.)
If you do know what I'm talking about, you're probably thinking: "Waaait a minute, there's still something here that looks different from what I remember... Sure, the background went back to yellow or other yellow and Anya, Noma, Ricky, and blushy guy went back to not being as badly-drawn, but something is-- Wait, are these MY thoughts that are showing up in this entry?! Is this dork's journal reading my mind?!? I'm thinking of a number between 1 and 100. It's 47. Okay, that's just scary. I'd better not start thinking about my darkest secret..."
And to all that, I say:
1) Um, the "blushy guy" is me. And the other three are Enya, Roma, and Nicky - it says so right there on the userpic. Speaking of which...
2) Yes, remember how I asked whether or not some of my userpics are legible enough and then tried to make more legible versions of some of them? But never got around to uploading those as userpics?
No, of course you don't remember, because that was years before I met at least half of you, and it's been so long that those of you who were around for it probably forgot all about it. So to refresh your memory:
one
two
three
four
Anyway... I finally got around to that - or at least, I hope I updated all the ones I meant to! Four or three years later. I still haven't even updated my sticky "list of userpics in order added" post to include these updated versions OR the 2009-style versions (retroactive or not) - or any versions of my userpics besides "what they normally looked like from late 2009 to the first half of 2017". And due to a glitch on LJ, now not even those will show up in that entry again until I edit all of the image URLs to have "https://" instead of "http://" :( *
I guess that makes me the Enya of userpic updating... But hey, I finally finished one thing I started, at least! :)
3) Don't worry, your darkest secret is safe with me. I make no guarantees about your second-darkest secret though! :P
Now to go edit every entry and comment I ever made to fix all the userpics that are broken now. :(
*They need to call HTTPS something different - I keep wanting to use that as the plural of "http". "I need to change all the https to https!" ;)
If you do know what I'm talking about, you're probably thinking: "Waaait a minute, there's still something here that looks different from what I remember... Sure, the background went back to yellow or other yellow and Anya, Noma, Ricky, and blushy guy went back to not being as badly-drawn, but something is-- Wait, are these MY thoughts that are showing up in this entry?! Is this dork's journal reading my mind?!? I'm thinking of a number between 1 and 100. It's 47. Okay, that's just scary. I'd better not start thinking about my darkest secret..."
And to all that, I say:
1) Um, the "blushy guy" is me. And the other three are Enya, Roma, and Nicky - it says so right there on the userpic. Speaking of which...
2) Yes, remember how I asked whether or not some of my userpics are legible enough and then tried to make more legible versions of some of them? But never got around to uploading those as userpics?
No, of course you don't remember, because that was years before I met at least half of you, and it's been so long that those of you who were around for it probably forgot all about it. So to refresh your memory:
one
two
three
four
Anyway... I finally got around to that - or at least, I hope I updated all the ones I meant to! Four or three years later. I still haven't even updated my sticky "list of userpics in order added" post to include these updated versions OR the 2009-style versions (retroactive or not) - or any versions of my userpics besides "what they normally looked like from late 2009 to the first half of 2017". And due to a glitch on LJ, now not even those will show up in that entry again until I edit all of the image URLs to have "https://" instead of "http://" :( *
I guess that makes me the Enya of userpic updating... But hey, I finally finished one thing I started, at least! :)
3) Don't worry, your darkest secret is safe with me. I make no guarantees about your second-darkest secret though! :P
Now to go edit every entry and comment I ever made to fix all the userpics that are broken now. :(
*They need to call HTTPS something different - I keep wanting to use that as the plural of "http". "I need to change all the https to https!" ;)
This is really cool
Sat, Aug. 4th, 2012 23:42
Ever since I found out about image sonification (converting an image to a sound or vice versa - in this case, with the horizontal axis corresponding to time and the vertical axis corresponding to pitch), I'd wondered if anyone had ever been able to listen to music "upside-down" by reversing the image vertically so that low pitches become high pitches and vice versa, but I could never find one. However, while trying to find a free program I'd downloaded a while back that used a different approach to image sonification (but I'd either deleted or forgotten about), I finally stumbled upon a program that can edit music as if it were an image, including turning it upside-down!
And there's even a free demo! Isn't it amazing when something you wish existed turns out to exist after all? :)
I never did find the other program that I forgot the name of, though, but I'm wondering if anyone out there happens to know of it.
Its method of converting an image to music, using my uChIN RA G userpic as an example:
Assuming that the red channel is mapped to piano, the green is drums, and the blue is flute (there's over 200 instruments to choose from, I think), most of the piece would be silent (for the plain black background), but towards the middle, the piano would play at only one pitch that is slightly lower than the highest pitch it allows (since all red values on the text are 248), the drums would play at two pitches (that one plus a slightly lower and quieter one for green values of 192, corresponding to the darker yellow/orange pixels), and, occasionally, the flute would play at that same high pitch (as there's only a few pixels - namely, the white pixels - where the blue is 248 instead of 0). And there's options to treat it as a grayscale image and only play one instrument, invert the colors (useful if there's more light colors than dark colors), lower the resolution to make a shorter piece, change the tempo, or have the tempo be faster whenever the instruments are quieter (to reduce the silence in this example).
If you didn't understand that, don't worry - you'd probably understand it better if you'd used the program I'm trying to describe, so that means you probably haven't. But if you do understand that, do you know what the program I'm talking about is called? Thanks!
bº²f fº λºⁿ└ ┒ºⁿ└∪ɘl¡
And there's even a free demo! Isn't it amazing when something you wish existed turns out to exist after all? :)
I never did find the other program that I forgot the name of, though, but I'm wondering if anyone out there happens to know of it.
Its method of converting an image to music, using my uChIN RA G userpic as an example:
Assuming that the red channel is mapped to piano, the green is drums, and the blue is flute (there's over 200 instruments to choose from, I think), most of the piece would be silent (for the plain black background), but towards the middle, the piano would play at only one pitch that is slightly lower than the highest pitch it allows (since all red values on the text are 248), the drums would play at two pitches (that one plus a slightly lower and quieter one for green values of 192, corresponding to the darker yellow/orange pixels), and, occasionally, the flute would play at that same high pitch (as there's only a few pixels - namely, the white pixels - where the blue is 248 instead of 0). And there's options to treat it as a grayscale image and only play one instrument, invert the colors (useful if there's more light colors than dark colors), lower the resolution to make a shorter piece, change the tempo, or have the tempo be faster whenever the instruments are quieter (to reduce the silence in this example).
If you didn't understand that, don't worry - you'd probably understand it better if you'd used the program I'm trying to describe, so that means you probably haven't. But if you do understand that, do you know what the program I'm talking about is called? Thanks!
bº²f fº λºⁿ└ ┒ºⁿ└∪ɘl¡
Okay, this is really creepy.
For the past666 weeks or so, I've been working on a fairly long LJ post with more images than I've made for a single post before. About as many as you'd find in the average Hyperbole and a Half post, in fact, which is why it's taken so long even though most of the images are edits of images I found online. (Of course, one of the ones that isn't is a huge graph...)
Today, my calculator (which I've made a program on to keep track of how fast I need to work if I wanna finish the graph and post this entry before the next semester of college) ran out of battery power, and since I wasn't sure if we had any more lithium batteries (since replacing the regular batteries didn't help), I made an Excel spreadsheet instead.
Now here's the creepy part. About 8-10 times today, the spreadsheet's calculations gave numbers containing 666 (e.g., 16662.somethingsomething).
Plus, recently I've been rolling 3 dice (or 4 when there were 4 unfinished parts of the entry) to determine what parts of the entry I'm allowed to work on next (e.g., if I get a 1 or 4, a 2 or 5, and a 3 or 6, it's up to me, but if I only get 2's and/or 5's I have to work on the graph); just recently, I rolled the dice, and out of 216 possible outcomes, guess what I got?
6-6-6
Even scarier is the fact that just yesterday (well, technically the day before that since it's after midnight),![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
pathvain_aelien saw the dice and thought they read 6-6-6. They didn't, but still, scary how all these actual 666's ended up appearing... :O
Dip this entry in holy water
For the past
Today, my calculator (which I've made a program on to keep track of how fast I need to work if I wanna finish the graph and post this entry before the next semester of college) ran out of battery power, and since I wasn't sure if we had any more lithium batteries (since replacing the regular batteries didn't help), I made an Excel spreadsheet instead.
Now here's the creepy part. About 8-10 times today, the spreadsheet's calculations gave numbers containing 666 (e.g., 16662.somethingsomething).
Plus, recently I've been rolling 3 dice (or 4 when there were 4 unfinished parts of the entry) to determine what parts of the entry I'm allowed to work on next (e.g., if I get a 1 or 4, a 2 or 5, and a 3 or 6, it's up to me, but if I only get 2's and/or 5's I have to work on the graph); just recently, I rolled the dice, and out of 216 possible outcomes, guess what I got?
6-6-6
Even scarier is the fact that just yesterday (well, technically the day before that since it's after midnight),
pathvain_aelien saw the dice and thought they read 6-6-6. They didn't, but still, scary how all these actual 666's ended up appearing... :ODip this entry in holy water
Extended meme time
Wed, Dec. 23rd, 2009 17:36
I just thought up an extended version of this meme.
Search for all of the following on Google Images and link to the first image that was not made by you for each one.
Your LJ username:
http://images2.fanpop.com/images/user_images/matt1993-391683_100_100.jpg
(It actually changed since the old version of this meme?)
Your journal title:
http://img.quizgalaxy.com/q47_1judeochristian.jpg
Your journal subtitle:
http://www.dahmus.org/iofiles/trans/shoalcreek3.jpg
The subjects of your 5 latest entries (not counting this meme or any entries with no subjects), starting from your most recent:
http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:bpdaYVKpONZfiM:http://www.daves-not-here.net/images/iraq/blackhawkcabin.jpg
http://static.squidoo.com/resize/squidoo_images/-1/lens2178775_1227578547printscreen-key.jpg
http://images.usoutdoorstore.com/usoutdoorstore/products/full/sal_irony_5_boot.jpg (I had to replace the superscript 5 with a regular 5)
http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/07aT6Z57ST4QU/340x.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_idlYwkc9AhE/Spf7vlZdIeI/AAAAAAAAIEQ/8dWJ9CoR2aM/s400/Picture%2B3.png
Your profile name:
http://eurostringer.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/dscn1994.jpg
The description of your default userpic (If you don't have a default userpic or it doesn't have a description, choose any userpic that has a description instead. If none of your userpics have descriptions, don't put anything for this one.):
http://www.gameogre.com/reviewdirectory/upload/RuneScape.jpg
What are YOUR random Google Images?
Search for all of the following on Google Images and link to the first image that was not made by you for each one.
Your LJ username:
http://images2.fanpop.com/images/user_images/matt1993-391683_100_100.jpg
(It actually changed since the old version of this meme?)
Your journal title:
http://img.quizgalaxy.com/q47_1judeochristian.jpg
Your journal subtitle:
http://www.dahmus.org/iofiles/trans/shoalcreek3.jpg
The subjects of your 5 latest entries (not counting this meme or any entries with no subjects), starting from your most recent:
http://t2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:bpdaYVKpONZfiM:http://www.daves-not-here.net/images/iraq/blackhawkcabin.jpg
http://static.squidoo.com/resize/squidoo_images/-1/lens2178775_1227578547printscreen-key.jpg
http://images.usoutdoorstore.com/usoutdoorstore/products/full/sal_irony_5_boot.jpg (I had to replace the superscript 5 with a regular 5)
http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/07aT6Z57ST4QU/340x.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_idlYwkc9AhE/Spf7vlZdIeI/AAAAAAAAIEQ/8dWJ9CoR2aM/s400/Picture%2B3.png
Your profile name:
http://eurostringer.files.wordpress.com/2008/07/dscn1994.jpg
The description of your default userpic (If you don't have a default userpic or it doesn't have a description, choose any userpic that has a description instead. If none of your userpics have descriptions, don't put anything for this one.):
http://www.gameogre.com/reviewdirectory/upload/RuneScape.jpg
What are YOUR random Google Images?
As if that other typo in the HAS course wasn't ironic enough, here's another one in the exact same set of requirements:
"•Saved as a .jpg of a .gif"
Wow, that's one JPEG of a GIF!
EDIT: That's supposed to be a superscript 5 in the subject line, but you kinda can't see it.
Wow, that's one JPEG of a post!
"•Saved as a .jpg of a .gif"
Wow, that's one JPEG of a GIF!
EDIT: That's supposed to be a superscript 5 in the subject line, but you kinda can't see it.
Wow, that's one JPEG of a post!
